The Sun. — London, England, 1809-12-27 00:00:00

FR. NC AND DUTCH PAPERS. PARIS, DEC, 17.—8 y desire of his Majesty the Emperor, all the Members of the Senate assembled yesterday, at eleven o'clock in the morning, in full dress, in the hall of their usual sittings. The sitting of the Senate yesterday, at which the Kings of West phalia and Naples, Grand Admiral the Prince Vice roy of Italy, the Arch-Chancellor of State, the Prince Vice-Grand Constable, and the Prince Vice- Grand Ele&or, assisted, and at which the Prince Arch-Chancellor of the Empire pre7icied, will form, on account of the importance of the snbjeEts which were discussed, an epoch in the annals of France. On that day was presented to the Senators a projet of a Senates Consultem, respe&ing a dissolution of the man iage between the Emperor Napoleon and the Empress Josephine. This . dissolution of mar riage, required by the two high parties, tend approv ed of by a family council, at which all the Princes and Princesses of the Imperial Family at present in Paris assisted, received the same day the assent of the Senate, after having been the object of exami _natiOn of a Special Commission, named for this pur- Pose. After having read the contents of the Imperial Decree,.which enacts the convocation of the Senate, and of that which direels that it shall be presided by the Prince, Arch-Chancellor, and that the Princes of the Imperial Family hereafter named should be pre sent in the Senate, the Official Journal gives an ac count of this memorable sitting in the following terms—[Here follows a Speech front the • Arch- Chancellor of State, the Prince Arch-Chancellor of the Empire, President, and Duke of Parma.] The Count Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely laid be fore the Senate the projet of the Senates Consultum, and explained the motive's of it, which are, that they mutually sacrifice their conjugal happiness to the wel fare and interest of their country. [Here follows a Speech from the Prince Viceroy of Italy; after which the Count Gamier, Annual President, proposed to refer the projet of the Senates Consultum to the exa mina't ion of a Special Commission of nine Members, which was named, and made its report during the sitting.] At half past four the Senate resumed its sitting; and Count Lacepede, one of the Members of the Special Commis4ion, made the report, which termi nated in proposing the adoption of the pro et of the Senates Consultum, and also the adoption of two ad dresses, one to the Emperor, and the other to the Empress. li.XTRACT FROM THE REGISTER OF THE CON'SEIIVA- TIVE SENATE, OF SAIURDAY THE 16TH DECENI ERR, 1809. " The Conservative Senate, assembled to the number of members prescribed by Article 80th of the MI of the ConsCitution, and dated the 13th December mg, having seen the Ad drawn up, Cie 15th of the present month, by the Prince Arch- Chancellor of the Empire, of which the following i s the substance : In the year 180 g, and the 15th day of Decem ber, at nine o'clock in the evening, we, Jean lilies Ilegis Carnbaceres, Prince Arch Chancellor of the Empire, Duke of Parma, exercising the furietion prescribed to us by Title of the 2d of the 14th Arti cle of the Statute of the Imperial Family, and in consequence of orders addressed to us by his Majesty the Emperor and King, in his private letter dated that day, of the following tenor : My Cousin, our desire is tit repair this day, at nine o'clock in the evening, to our grand Cabinet of the Palace of the Thuilleries, attended by the Civil Secretary of State of our Imperial Family, to receive from us, and from the Empress, our dear consort, a communication of great importance ; for this pur pose we have ordered that this present private lette r should be sent you. We pray God to have you, my Cousin, in his holy blessed keeping.' Paris, Dec. 15, 1809. Oa the back is.w rit ten, To our Cousin, the Prince Arch Chancellor, Duke of Parma,' We accordingly proceeded to the Hall of the Throne of the Palace of the Thuilleries, attended by Michel Louis Etienne Regnault (de St. Jean d'An gely) Count of the Empire, Minister of State, and Secretary of State to the Imperial Family. A quar ter of an hour afterw,irds, we were introduced to the grand Cabinet of the Emperor, where we found Lis Majesty the Emperor and King with her Ma jesty the Empress, attended by their Majesties . the Kings of Holland, Westphalia, and Naples, his Imperial Highness, the Prince Viceroy ; the Queens of Holland, Westphalia, Naples, and , Spain ; Madame, and her Imperial Highness the Trincess Paulina. His Majesty the Emp..ror and King condescended to address us in these terms : " My Cousin, Prince Arch-Chancellor,. I dis patched to you a private letter, dated this day, to di -4 e a you to repair to my Cabinet for the purpose of communicating to you the resolution which I and the 7,mores:;, my dearest consort, have taken. It gives pie pleasure that the Kings, Queens, and Princesses, my brothers and sisters, my brothers and sisters-in law, my daughter-in-law, and my son-in-law, (be come my adopted son,) as well as My mother, should witness what I am going to co.nmunicate to yen. " The politics of my monarchy, the interest and the wants of my people, which have constantly guided all my a&ions, require that after me, I should leave to children, inheritors of my love for my People, that throne on which Providence has placed me. Notwithstanding, for several years past I have lost the hope of having children by my marriage with my well-beloved consort, the Empress Josephine. This it is which induces me to sacrifice the sweetest affections of my heart, to attend to nothing but the good of the State, and to wish the dissolution of my marriage. Arrived at the age of forty years, I may indulge the hope of liv ing long enough to educate, in my views and senti ments the children which it may,please Providence to give me : God knows how much such a resolution has cost my heart; but there is no sacrifice beyond my courage, that I will not make, when it is proved to me to be necessary to the welfare of France. I should add that far from ever having had reason to complain, on the contrary, I have had only to be satisfied with the attachment and the affeetion of my well-belov ed Consort. She has adorned fifteen years of my life, the remembrance of which wily ever remain engraven on my heart. She was crowned by my hand. I wish she should preserve, the rank and title of Empress, but, above all, that she should never doubt my sentiments, and that she should ever regard me as her best and dearest friend." " His Majesty the Emperor and King having ended, her Majesty the Empress and Queen spoke as follows : " By the permission of our dear and august Con sort, I ought to declare, that not preserving any hope of having children, which may fulfil the wants of his policy and the interests of France, I am pleased to give him the greatest proof of attachment and de votion which has ever been given on earth. I pos sess ali from his bounty, it was his hand which crowned me ; and from the height of this throne have received nothing but proofs of affection and love from the French people. " I think I prove myself grateful in consenting to the dissolution of a marriage which heretofore was an obstacle to the welfare of France, which deprived it of the happiness of being one day governed by the descendants of a great man, evidently raised up by Providence, to efface the evils of a terrible revolu tion, and to re-establish the altar, the throne, and social order. But the dissolution of my marriage will in no degree change the sentiments of .my . heart. The Emperor will ever have in me his best friend. I know how much this ara, demanded by policy and by interests so great, has chilled his heart ; but both of us exult in the sacrifice which we make for the good of the country." "• After which their Imperial Majesties having demanded an aEt of their respeaive declarations, as well as of the mutual consent contained in them, and which their Majesties gave to the dissolution o f their marriage, as also of the power which their Ma- jesties conferred on us to follow up as need shall re quire the effect of their will, we Prince Arch-Chan cellor of the Empire, in obedience to the orders and requisitions of their Majesties, have given the afore said acts, and have in consequence executed the pre sent proces verbal, to serve and avail according to law, to which proces verbal their Majesties have affixed their signature ; and which after having been signed by the Kings, Queens, Princes, and Princesses Pre sent, has been signed by us, and countersigned by the Secretary of the Imperial Family. " Done at the Palace of the Thuil'cries, the day, hour, and the year aforesaid. (Signed) " NAPOLEON, " EUGENE NAPOLEON, " lOSEPHLNE, . jULIE. " MADAME, " HORTENSE, LOUIS, " CATHERINE, IERONIF. NAPOLEON, " PAULINE, " lOACHJM NAPOLEON" CAROLINE. " CAMBACERES,Ice Arch-Chancellor, " COUNT HEYNAULT, (de St. lean d'Angely.)" ",Having seen the projct of the Senatus Consul tum, drawn up in the form prescribed by the 57th Article of the A6t of the Constitution of the 4th August, 1802 ; after having heard the motives of the said projet, the Orators of the Council of State, and the Report of the Special Commissibn, appoint ed in the sitting of this day ; the adoption having been discussed by the number of members prescribed by the sGth Article of the Ali of the Constitution of the 4th August, 1802, decrees, " Art. I. The marriage contraled between the Emperor Napoleon and the Etnpress Josephine is dissolved. 11. The Empress Josephine shall preserve the title and rank of Empress Q.ueen crowned. . 111. Her dowry is fixed at an annual income of two millions of francs, on the Itevenue of the State. " IV. All the assignments which may be made by the Emperor in favour of the Empreis Josephine on the fads of the Civil List, shall be obligatory on his successors. "V. The present Senatus C~rsultum, shall, .be transmitted by a Message to his Imperial and Royal Majesty." The two Addresses proposed by the Commission were afterwards put to the vote, and adopted. LEGISLATIVE BODY. SITTING OE DEC. -12. Count Montalvet delivered, in the Emperor's name, an Exposd of the situation of France up to the first of t his month. After having introduced his im portant narrative, by observing, that signal vi&ories, generous pacification, the results of the most pro found political combinations, and the maintenance of order in the interior, form the prominent fea tures of the history of the year which has just elapsed, he enumerated under the different heads of public labours, in particular in Paris, charitable establish ments, public instruetion, sciences, letters, and arts, agriculture, manufa&ures and industry, mines, com merce and trade, finances, religious worship, war, and politics; the progress made, advantages obtained, and changes etreCted in the course of. the said year. Under the head of commerce and trade, he express ed himself in the following manner :—" CoMmerce in general applies itself to draw the greatest possible advantages from the products of agriculture and in dustry. Our trade undoubtedly suffers from the present extraordinary state of affairs,which, forming, as it were, two masses, one of the European conti nent, the other of the seas and of the countries from which they separate us, leaves to them no commu nication with France. Our relations with the United States of America are also for the present suspend ed ; but as they are founded on mutual wants, they will speedily resume their former course." Under the head of Religious Worship, after hav ing declared that in France all religions are not only tolerated, but honoured and encouraged, he makes the following observations :—" No well-informed person is ignorant of the mischief which the tem poral Sovereignty of the Pope has done to religion ; but for.this mischief one moiety of Europe would not be severed from the Catholic Church. There was but one mean to free it for ever from such great danger, and to reconcile the interests of the State with those of Religion. It was necessary that Ilse successor of St.. Peter should again become un disturbed by worldly concerns, merely a pastor, like St. Peter." Under the article of war, a description is given of the advantages obtained in Germany, Austria, Hun gary, and Spain; which is terminated by the follow- . ing remarks : " By the peace of Vienna, France and her allies have obtained considerable advantages, and the Con tinent of Europe has regained tranquility and peace. Let us hope that Allis peace will be more permanent than that of Presburgh ; and that the men who de luded the Cabinet of Vienna after the Peace of Pres burgh, will not succeed in deceiving it again atter that of Vienna ; they would pronounce the doom of their Masters; for France, ever great, powerful, and strong, will always know how to destroy and coun tetaa the combinations and intrigues of her enemies. In the mean time, England, seeing that our armies were employed in Germany, and ,hPing always ill informed, no, withstanding the immense treasures she wastes in paying spies, fancied that our veteran troops had left Spain, and that the weakened French army would not be able to withstand their efforts.— Forty thousand men were disembarked in Portugal, joined the insurgents, and flattered themselves they sl ould be able to march to Madrid; they gathered nothing but disgrace from their enterprise; they were met by armies in all places, where they fancied to find only divisions. Forty thousand men landed at the same rime in Walcherenir and without having commenced the siege, by means of i, short bombardment they rendered themselves in a fort night masters of Flushing, which was defended in a cowardly manner. His Majesty ordered a report to be made to him on this subject. The Emperor ge nerously reWards those, who, anicated with his sentiments, and sensible of what they owe to the honour of France, are faithfel to glory and their country; but he severely•punishes those who calcu late the danger when victory alone should occupy. their mind, and preter a disgraceful Rigor to a glo rious d In the wean time all the departments' were ii t s : 150,000 men of the national guards put th - 'es in motion, while at the same time 25,000 troops drawn from the depots assembled in Flanders, and the Gens d'Arwes formed a corps of 8000 choice cavalry. The English Commander in Chief, as a wise and prudent mun, would not ex pose his army to danger more destructive than the plague ; he returned to England. All the depart ments gave striking proofs of their attachment to the Government and Emperor. Some distri&s only in the department of the Sarre shewed a contrary dis position. Commissioners have been appointed to enquire into their condua. The distriets and pri vate individuals, who have miscondufted themselves, shall be deprived, during the space of twenty-five years, of the rights of citizens, an:i subjected to a double contribution. Over their doors shall be written the words—" this is not a French Com mune." . Under the head of politics, the changes are enu merated, which were the result of the peace of Vienna, and the Emperor's views developed with re gard to important future arrangements. " It would have been an easy task for the Emperor (says Count Montalvet), to unite all Gallicia with the Duchy of Warsaw ; but he would not do any thing which should excite the least uneasiness in the mind of his Ally, the Emperor of Russia. His Majesty never entertained the idea of restoring the kingdom of Poland. What he has done for New Galhcia was prescribed to him by sound policy and honour. He could not surrender to the vengeance of an implaca ble Prince, people who had displayed such fervent zeal for the cause of France." He then proceeds : " The Hanse Towns shall preserve their indepen dence ; they shall .erve as a medium of the reprisil of war with regard to England. Peace shall imme diately be concluded with Sweden. Nothing shall be changed in the political relations of the Confede ration of the Rhine, and the Helvetic Confederacy. Holland is, in fact, only a part of France. A defi nition of that country may be give❑ by saying that it is an illusion of the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Scheldt ; that is to say, of the great artlrics of th,:, French Einpite. The absolute inAttivity of be t Custom-house, the disposition of her ageot s ' and the sentiments of its inhabitants, wh c, tend incessantly to a fraudulent trade with Ea land, has rendered it necessary to exclude did from all commercial intercourse with the Rhine; and thus placed in a state of morbid corp; pression between France and England, is deprived both of the advantages which clash wit' our general system, and which she must relinquish i t and of those which she might enjoy. , It is time the all this should be set right. The Illyrian Pro - vinc ° cover Italy, give her a direct communication wir e Dalmatia, procure us a point of immediate conta ct with the Empire of Constantinople, which it must 0 , the wish and intention of France for so many r eason' to support and protect. Spain and Portugal are the seat of a mad revolution ; the numerous agents ' England keep up the conflagration, which they 11 0 raised. The force, the power, and the calm modern tion, of the Emperor will restore to them peac c ; ful days. Should Spain free her col o nies, . 1 , will be through her own fault. The Emperor vol: never oppose the independence of the continent ° ' nations of America ; that independence is in the or tural order of events ; it is just ; it agrees with th e true interests of all Eurocan Powers. Should tl,O people of Mexico and Peru wish to raise themselces to the elevation of a noble independence, Franc ° shall never oppose them, provided they enter into 0 ° conneEtion with England. France is - not under th e necessity of vexing her neighbours, or imposing them tyrannic laws, to secure her prosperity and trade. We have loSt the colony of Martinico, an that of Cayenne ; they were both badly defend"' The circumstances which led to their loss torn the object of a striEt inquiry although it is not of a n d weight in the general balance of affairs, since th c Y,, will he restored to us in amore flouri s hin g condition at the general peace. SPAIN. GENERAL. ORDER OF THE ARMY, DEC. 4, i sOg• " His Majesty makes known to the army, that the Spanish army, commanded by the Duke de` Parque, who imprudently engaged on the right bani c of the Tormes, was completely defeated on th 6 28th November, at Alba, by the 6th corps of th ° army, and the second division of dragoons. Fiftee a pieces of cannon, many caissons, six standards) 10,000 muskets, and above 2000 prisoners, fell ill the hands Of the Imperial troops. The enervY 3000 men killed—one General, several Col° ne and a great number of Officers. Tha I-en-tains 0 the army, favoured by the night, fled in all diCec tions, abandoning their arms and baggage. Thus I.he 7 t last hope of the insnrre6tional party is destroyed. is to be hoped, that by the pursuit of these detached' corps, and the insurgents which are dispersed in th e provinces, which is about to take place, inter nal tranquility will soon be re-established. (Signed) " The Marshal of Empire Duke of DALOAT44. BERLIN, Nov. 25.—M. Gentz, of this city, ha s been arrested, and his papers seized and sealed up. Co NSTANTINOPLE, OCT.lO.—The Russians whi ch f were encamped at Basa have repulsed the troops ° J. the neighbouring districts, who attacked them, . A a n ri a obliged them to retire - but the army Or trig C" --- vizier has beaten, on die other side of the Danobl a corps of 6000 Russians, and taken four pieces o f cannon, Scu. MM LS. AR a rvtia—z New York, z Dublin, 2 Waterf4?4 l Duz-2 Gottenburgh, i Waterford. THE SUN. SOLtIII QUIS DICZKI FALSIVId AUDZAT L 0 N D 0 N, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, Mgt We last night received French and Dutch capers' the former to the 19th, and the latter to the 934 inst. Their contents are most interesting, but v ie are compelled, from the great mass of Foreign In a telligence, to submit them to our Readers almost without comment. The long-talked of divorce be' tymen BUONAPARTE and JOSEPHIN4 has at length taken place. Our Readers will recollect that WC stated some time ago that this was one of the olr jeas which the corsican had in view when he 15' sued his orders for assembling his vassal Kings at Paris. It is impossible to peruse without a smile 1110 official account of the Ceremonies used upon this ingular occasion, and the speeches made by Boo" NAPARTE and his late ConsorL The people of France must, no doubt; be fully convinced Eh:4 tbi s, atfeClionate couple have offered this violence to conjugal feelings solely for the purpose of promoting the happiness of France. BUONAPARTE, it seems, i 5. determined upon a second marriage, and a daughter of the King of Saxony is mentioned as his intende4 bride. His reason for parting from JOSEPHINE iS his want of issue, and he not only expresses his confident hope that he shall have children by future marriage, but that he shall live long enough to educate them in his own principles ! We have also extraCted from these Papers all the important parts of the annual Exposition of the af fairs of France ; it contains nothing very remarkable , but it is not so full of invetlive against this Cotintry as most of the former Expositions were.—We sbell resume our observations upon the contents of these Papers to-morrow. Mr. OAKL'Y arrived in town last night, with dig patches from Mr. JACKSON j he came over in th e chester f ield packet. By this conveyance we have received American Papers to the Ist instant, COw taining the President's Message on the opening of